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Do you listen to equipment or music.

This Blog got me to thinking about the subject:
https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blogger.g?blogID=6484902156509233383#editor/target=post;postID=191909277...
In the past I have spent hours listening to the same part of the same song just to fine tune various components of the of the audio system. I even move speakers and listen - move them again and listen more. Sometimes I wonder what I am doing. Whatever it is, when I get into this mode, I am not listening to the music.  It would be nice how the community feels about listening to music or equipment.
johnspain
wolf_garcia
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The audiophile community is NOT composed of simply two subgroups, it seems more like wildly varying shades of both camps at once. I keep things in my gear heap until something dies or I actually feel like something needs improvement, or I just WANT a new thing...that's rare, but hey...it happens. I have a friend who spends piles on what I feel is unnecessarily expensive redundancies, but he's wound pretty tight...and my rig sounds better...HA...it is all about the music, I sit in the sweet spot for hours mesmerized by it, and mix live shows for brilliant musicians from time to time (trust me...get into THAT biz...it's worth it). Buy stuff, listen to music through it, and calm down DAMMIT! (breathe...I gotta breathe...)
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larry5729
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I am new at this.  I think the majority of audiophiles listen to the quality of the sound rather than to just the music.  Why else do they continue to search for better and better equipment.  Why else would someone sell their old equipment and upgrade the new?  To me it is all about the sound and not necessarily about the music itself.  Why do you think people buy high end cars?
mr_m
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s2000cr,

My gosh man, you must have been around before the Dead Sea was even sick!...:-)
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ivan_nosnibor
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Sorry all. My post was a little over the top for this thread...had more than one Agon browser open and accidentally posted here thinking I was posting in another thread...oopsies My bad. Hope no one here was killed in the melee.

AFA this topic goes, I've been trying to wrap up a nearly 3-year period of almost entirely listening to the gear rather than the music, although lately as I've closed in on my sq goals I've recently had much more opportunity to return to the music. 

It can be very difficult to break on thru to the other side with it, much easier for most to do that in stages over time, but it definitely can be done. So looking forward in another year or so to have gotten the setup across the finish line and I can focus entirely on the music again! May even get a few more lumps on my head for more new kinds of music, too.
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